Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Long-term ecosystem research between theory and application - an introduction / Felix Mul̈ler ... [et al.] -- Theoretical demands for long-term ecological research and the management of long-term data sets / Felix Mul̈ler ... [et al.] -- Long-term ecosystem dynamics : theoretical concepts of environmental change / Brian D. Fath and Felix Mul̈ler -- The scientific potential of environmental monitoring / Claus-G. Schimming, Sabine Augustin, and Rolf Karez -- Twenty-eight years of the US-LTER Program : experience, results, and research questions / James R. Gosz, Robert B. Waide, and John J. Magnuson -- Introducing the next generation of ecosystem research in Europe : LTER-Europe's multi-functional and multi-scale approach / Michael Mirtl -- The role of ecosystem modelling for long-term ecological research / Albrecht Gnauck, Sven E. Jørgensen, and Bernhard Luther -- The role of statistics for long-term ecological research / Albrecht Gnauck ... [et al.] -- The role of remote sensing in LTER projects / Patrick Hostert ... [et al.] -- Long-term ecological change in the northern Wadden Sea / Justus E.E. van Beusekom ... [et al.] -- Long-term model simulation of environmental conditions to identify externally forced signals in biological time series / Karina Stockmann ... [et al.] -- Long-term investigations in brackish ecosystems / Hendrik Schubert, Norbert Wasmund, and Kevin G. Sellner -- Long-term ecological research in freshwater ecosystems / Jan Koḧler -- Long-term monitoring in rivers of South Germany since the 1970s - macrophytes as indicators for the assessment of water quality and its implications for the conservation of rivers / Peter Poschlod ... [et al.] -- Long-term observations of soil mesofauna / Hartmut Koehler and Viesturs Melecis -- Tracing biogeochemical processes in small catchments using non-linear methods / Gunnar Lischeid, Pavel Kra{u00B4}m, and Christina Weyer -- Long-term measurements to quantify the impact of arable management practices on deep seepage and nitrate leaching / Uwe Schindler ... [et al.] -- Long-term ecosystem research in a beech forest of northern Germany / Filipa Tavares ... [et al.] -- A conceptual framework for integrated functional landscape monitoring in the wider countryside of Central Europe / Ralf-Uwe Syrbe ... [et al.] -- Temporal changes and spatial determinants of plant species diversity and genetic variation / Cornelia Baessler, Stefan Klotz, and Walter Durka -- Integration of long-term environmental data by the example of the UNECE heavy metals in mosses survey in Germany : application of a WebGIS-based metadata system / Gunther Schmidt ... [et al.] -- Monitoring of ecosystems : two different approaches - long-term observation versus success control / Vera Luthardt -- National parks as model regions for interdisciplinary long-term ecological research : the Bavarian Forest and Sǔmava{u00B4} national parks underway to transboundary ecosystem research / Marco Heurich ... [et al.] -- Turning long-term monitoring into policy - using the National Park Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea as an example / Britta Diederichs -- Design and importance of multi-tiered ecological monitoring networks / K. Bruce Jones ... [et al.] -- Conceptualising long-term socio-ecological research (LTSER) : integrating the social dimension / Simron J. Singh ... [et al.] -- Integrating social sciences into long-term ecological research / Cornelia Ohl and Scott M. Swinton -- Ecosystem manipulation and restoration on the basis of long-term conceptions / Oliver Dilly ... [et al.] -- Exploratories for large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research / Markus Fischer ... [et al.] -- On the way to an integrative long-term ecosystem research - milestones, challenges, and some conclusions / Felix Mul̈ler ... [et al.].